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THE Cleveland Medical Gazette
| VOL. I. | JANUARY, 1886. | No. 3. |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES.
A HISTORY OF MEDICINE.
BY JOHN BENNITT, M. D.,
Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine in the Medical Department of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
It may not be inappropriate to give in your journal a brief sketch of the history of medicine, by the consideration of which we may come to a better appreciation of our present standpoint as medical men. We may also the better understand how much we, as medical men, and the world at large, are indebted to the methodical, plodding workers of the past in the field of inquiry pertaining to the nature and cure of disease. Such review may have the effect of stimulating medical men to more careful observation and the recording the results of observations that they may be given to others for mutual benefit.
Science may be defined as “classified knowledge.” But all our knowledge is based on experience and observation. Medical science, like other sciences, taking the definition of Sir John Herschel, is “the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically digested and arranged so as to become attainable by one.”